College Roundup: OCC blows away Golden West, 21-1

The Pirates' baseball team collects 22 hits in easy conference win.

COSTA MESA — Bijan Rademacher went four for four with six runs batted in and four runs scored to highlight the Pirates' 22-hit attack in the Orange Empire Conference game Saturday.

Trent Woodward went four for five with four RBIs and one run scored for OCC (27-3-1, 14-2 in conference).

Joel Licon (two for three, two RBIS, three runs), Chris Carlson (three for three, three runs, two RBIs, Stefan Sabol (one for two, three RBIs, three runs), Bryan Garza (three for four, two RBIs, two runs), Justin Broussard (two for four, one RBI, one run) and Austin Wobrock (two for five, one run) also contributed for the Pirates.

UCI (21-5, 17-5 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) clinched the fourth seed in the MPSF tournament. The Anteaters will play host to No. 5 UCLA in a MPSF quarterfinal match next Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Bren Center. UCI improved to 9-1 on the road this year.

Junior Kevin Tillie led the Anteaters with 13 kills followed by senior Carson Clark with 11 kills. Middle blocker Dan McDonnell hit .778 with eight kills on nine attempts and one error. He also recorded six total blocks. Outside hitter Connor Hughes added seven kills and a match-high nine digs. Setter Chris Austin had a career and match-high seven block assists to go with 36 set assists and six digs.

UCI hit .436 943-9-78) for the match and had 11 blocks and five aces. UCSD hit just .136 and had three blocks and two aces.